Fifteen-year-old Will Drake has made a career of breaking out from high-security prisons. His talents have landed him at The Rig, a specialist juvenile holding facility in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. No one can escape from The Rig. No one except for Drake...

After making some escape plans and meeting the first real friends of his life, Drake quickly realises that all is not as it seems on The Rig. The Warden is obsessed with the mysterious Crystal-X - a blue, glowing substance that appears to give superpowers to the teens exposed to it. Drake, Tristan and Irene are banking on a bid for freedom - but can they survive long enough to make it?

Drake is an action hero to rival Jason Bourne and the CHERUB team in this debut author's fantastically imagined nightmare.

This one kind of steps up the game for me, as not only have I broken into traditional publishing well and truly, The Rig won the Guardian and Hot Key Books Young Writer's Prize at the London Book Fair.

Release date is September 5, just three short months away, so I'm going to try and start to build a little traction. If anyone's on Goodreads and wants to add the book to their read list, that'd be useful.

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Becoming a writer is a polite way of saying you've chosen alcoholism as a career.

Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe than time is a companion who goes with us on the journey, and reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important how we lived. After all, Number One, we're only mortal. ~Jean-Luc Picard

This is great and all and I'll be picking up a copy no question, but my face when this part came up in your summary: "Drake, Tristan and Irene are banking on a bid for freedom." Please tell me she was locked up for an incident involving two dildos.

That being said, awesome chapter Joe, all the best for the book. Hope I'll get toI will definitely buy it when it comes out!

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Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe than time is a companion who goes with us on the journey, and reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important how we lived. After all, Number One, we're only mortal. ~Jean-Luc Picard